Exam 4: Instrumental Learning: Reward

Joe is playing a slot machine in a casino, and in the 5 hours that he has been playing, he has only won once. However, Joe persists in putting his money in the machine, and, more often than not, losing it! From the information here, on what type of reinforcement schedule can you be certain that Joe has been placed?

Frustrations arising from S^Δ can be overcome by

Assume that a casino slot machines is programmed to reward players after, on average, every 245 attempts. Such a schedule would illustrate reinforcement:

The quickest way to reduce an organism's biological need would be to use:

Using the scenario described in question 4.34, if the reinforcer was only given after the goal behavior, and not the earlier actions of the rat, the method employed would be referred to as:

Which process should be implemented to enhance responding to a S^D?

A teacher wants her students to hand in homework assignments on time, so punctually-returned assignments are rewarded with stickers. How many stickers should each child get, per assignment, if the teacher wants as high of a return rate as possible?

An experimenter designs their experiment so that a reinforcer is delivered after a subject presses a bar in a Skinner box. To maximize conditioning, which delay interval (between the response and the delivery of the reinforcer) should be used?

If one wanted to teach an animal to discriminate between stimuli, which of the following should be encouraged?

Which of the following is a form of Behavior Modification?

Sara gets a sticker for handing in every 3rd homework assignment her teacher assigns. The type of reinforcement schedule being used is a:

A teacher wants has always rewarded her students for handing in their homework assignments on time by rewarding punctually-returned assignments with 5 stickers per assignment. After a month of this reward system, the teacher only offers 1 sticker per assignment. What is she likely to observe, in terms of the punctuality of returned homework assignments?

The type of connection that is central to Thorndike's work is:

Transsituationality is the idea that reinforcers:

To train a rat to press a bar in a Skinner box, Dr. Jones first gives the rat a reinforcer for smelling the bar, then gives it a reinforcer for touching the bar lightly, and then, finally, gives another reinforcer when the goal behavior, bar-pressing, is accomplished. Dr. Jones's technique is best illustrative of:

Tom, a 14-year -old boy, is watching a television commercial aimed at showing people how unhealthy cigarettes are to one's health. Such a message is best referred to as a(n)

While training her dog to retrieve a newspaper and bring it back to her, Alice rewards her dog with a small treat after he performs the behavior correctly. In order to maximize the value that the reward has on the dog's ability to learn the behavior, the goal gradient hypothesis would suggest that how much time should pass between retrieving the paper and receiving the reward?

After getting a good grade on an exam, Julie's mom gives Julie a big hug. The behavior of Julie's mom in this situation could best be described as:

Biofeedback tries to teach subjects how to:

Which of the following is not central to Hull's computation of Response Strength?